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- From: leichter@lrw.com (Jerry Leichter)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: re: re: MAIL problem (NOT newmail count :)
- Message-ID: <9301011314.AA07755@uu3.psi.com>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 12:14:12 GMT
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- A couple of people have explained about the lost MAIL.LIS files being
- created for print jobs from MAIL ... does anyone know a reason why
- lost MAIL.TXT files get created? We get large numbers of these on our
- system disk. They are almost always zero length and all the ones I can
- find at the moment are owned by the MAIL$SERVER account (which is used
- for incoming DECnet mail access).
-
- Are these files in a directory, or are they also showing up as "lost" files?
-
- Are you running any non-VMS-standard MAIL software, e.g., DECUS UUCP? I've
- seen this general kind of thing happen with DECUS UUCP in rare instances,
- probably when the process running it died. These SOUND like temporary files
- being created for incoming mail; the network link (and/or the receiving
- process) then die before any data is actually written to the file, but it
- never gets deleted.
-
- One thing I did notice in some of my similar (but not identical) situations
- was that the creation dates on the files fell into a couple of fairly tight
- groups, suggesting a temporary problem (e.g., disk was full and the program
- did not recover gracefully).
- -- Jerry
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